Components fire validate events as well as the form, so modify your
@OnEvent to identify the form as the origin of the event.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Blower, Andy
<andy.blo...@proquest.co.uk> wrote:
> From one of my developers:
>
> When using the VALIDATE event to validate form details, the validation method
> is called several times.
>
> Eg.
>
> �...@onevent(EventConstants.VALIDATE)
> void validateChooseFolderForm() {
>
> ...
> }
>
> Is called at least three times, executing different sections of the code each
> time. Each time it is called, the test values show as null in Eclipse debug
> mode, though I suspect it is being run once per field in the form. The third
> time it is run, a NullPointerException is thrown by the "else if
> (!isFolderNameUnique())" line.
>
> Workaround is to change to @OnEvent(EventConstants.VALIDATE_FORM). This only
> calls the validate method once per submission.
>
>
> This seems to have affected us in two places when deprecated events were
> updated to the new version. Is this a known issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
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